Comments on: Why you should convert your Blogger Blog to Self Hosted WordPress

By: Satrap

Satrap — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:44:57 +0000

As much as I like blogger, I can not understand for the life of me why would anyone not want to move to wordpress.

I mean, with all the great free themes and plugins out there that makes everything as easy as 1,2,3, its just insane to stay with blogger.

Plus, if you are serious about blagging and making money, why would you put all your efforts in someones else’s hand.

Blogger (assuming you are blogspot extension for your domain) can pull down your blog at any moment for any reason whats so ever.

I think most of us know the guys who worked for years and had his blog ran 1 for most “make money online” keywords and one day his blog was simply gone because Google decided it was spam! (yeah he got it back, but it hasn’t been the same since then).

By: Nancy @ Laser Treatment for Acne

Nancy @ Laser Treatment for Acne — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:44:04 +0000

well this is very obvious that wordpress is far superior and user friendly and more importantly more seo friendly than blogger.. the use of plugins make my job so much easier as i m a noob to coding and stuff, so hands down wordpress is better and one shdu really consider moving to wordpress from blogger.. blogger seems to be a old thing now hehe

By: Beritawa

Beritawa — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 02:01:43 +0000

nice info, I’m using my blogspot and wordpress for online bussiness
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By: Catherina Burchett

Catherina Burchett — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:15:10 +0000

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By: aryan

aryan — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:00:06 +0000

I am totally disagree with you :- Blogger blogs rocks in terms of seo even compare to old and high quality websites. There are tons of blogger blogs who are getting top 5 rank in search engines even they are new..

In terms of professionalism, wordpress wins but we can manipulate the blogger blogs too. javascripts can solve everything.

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By: TMI Leads

TMI Leads — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:05:26 +0000

Nice post. It seems there are so many advantages to WP. It makes me wonder – Why do so many folks continue to use the other one?
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By: Easy net money

Easy net money — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:26:17 +0000

I think much easy to use than word press and as long as there is no such need of buying some hosting i should go on with blogger. Blogger is free and much easy to use than word press for me and i am using it for the last 2 years... .-= Easy net money´s last blog ..How To Make Money With Blogvertise =-.

By: Robert Mathew

Robert Mathew — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:44:52 +0000

Intresting post, i really enjoyed reading it.

By: Nishant Singh

Nishant Singh — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:28:48 +0000

I used to blog at Blogger before and later switched to the free WordPress Blog and found it far better to use (relative simplicity). Now I am also managing a couple of WordPress hosted blogs and am pleased with the functionality it provides especially the plugins, as you rightly pointed out.
Offcourse, I still have to figure out the best way to move my own personal blog from a wordpress.com domain to my own domain without really affecting my readership… Still a newbie in this regard LOL.
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By: G.D. Brown

G.D. Brown — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:50:20 +0000

Great points. I would also add that with Blogger you take the risk of having your blog shut down because some people have “flagged” it or Google decides you are violating TOS.

Self hosted WordPress definitely has many advantages over Blogger, most especially control, as mentioned before.

I also advise clients to use WP if they are serious about their blog. If all they want to do is put up a blog for fun, friends, or family, then Blogger would probably be the easiest route to follow.

Most people do not realize that they can set up a professional self hosted WP blog totally free. The only expense would be for a domain name which is under $10 per year. There are also ways to get a free domain name but it will not be a .com address.

http://computertactics.com/2009/12/12/totally-free-blogging/ is an article on how to set up free hosting and WordPress. I did this over 3 years ago and have absolutely no complaints. I have multiple blogs and 2 websites hosted this way.
No ads, requirements, or costs.
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By: Joel Schnoor

Joel Schnoor — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:55:23 +0000

You have some excellent ideas here. I started on blogger and did that for a couple years. I switched to wordpress because of the tools / widgets available, though I know I’m still only scratching the surface. I’m discovering things through trial and error — terribly inefficient. Any good suggestions for books or other resources that would help me tap into the power of wordpress?

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By: rahul ninja

rahul ninja — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:38:25 +0000

blogger is safe as its security is maintained , traffic is unlimited so we can use wordpress tricks on blogger both seems to be similar. .-= rahul ninja´s last blog ..CLICK THROUGH RATE =-.

By: Gautam

Gautam — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:01:50 +0000

Yes i have used akismet, and it saves me a lot of time. ALL the spam box is full in a week or so, i scan through it so that i don’t delete any valid comment.

By: ayman

ayman — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:40:39 +0000

i am using blogger because of unlimited traffic, unlimited bandwith and more secure.

plus i can do all wordpress trics on blogger
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By: Gautam

Gautam — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:12:38 +0000

Professional blog according to me, is one in which the posts are well written and are easy to understand. I don’t deny the fact that there are a lot of professional blogs using blogger platform. But in my opinion the amount of features wordpress offers, one should convert to wordpress. Unless you have decent knowledge in coding, it is dificult to use blogger as a professional blogging platform.

An important point to remember is that i am talking of self hosted wordpress and not wordpress.com (which is inferior to blogger).

Self hosted wordpress is a paid one and it is worth it, if you are looking forward to serious blogging, because, believe it or not, most of the pro-bloggers using blogger platform, eventually convert to wordpress, or start a wordpress blog instead of the old blogger one.

By: Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai

Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:50:44 +0000

@Gautam

Just dropped here for the first time while doing some twitter search.
There are some points which I am afraid are not valid with regard to Blogger.

1. You said to start a professional blogging career switch to WordPress? What does the word “Professional” actually stands for according to you. Is it someone who is using a well organized template with lots of functionality? I pardon to differ.
A professional blog is a platform which provides good reading content for its users and is able to attract fair traffic in return. A blog is professional in every regard if it has a good flow of traffic and continuous increase in number of subscribers, followers and advertisers. Like that of blognol and bloggerbuster.

2. You said that Javascripts can not be used inside blogger posts, then you must check all my Javascript based tools that I integrated inside blogger post -> http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2008/11/mbt-tools-tos.html

3. You said php is dynamic and I totally agree but friend how many people actually understand how to use it. Hardly negligible as compared to HTML users.

4. The best advantage of blogger is that it allows you to edit your stylesheet whereas WordPress doesn’t.

5. As far themes are concerned, no doubt WordPress has good quality themes but if all these templates are bloggerized and made available to blogspot users everyday then how come Blogger have limited themes?

6. You said meta keywords will increase page load time. As a certified SEO my self I will again pardon to differ. Friend how can few bytes increase the page load time. 1000 Characters equal 1kb. Source use my Character Counter tool.

If you ask me then honestly speaking Blogger is the mother of all blogging platforms. It doesn’t only makes you a good blogger but at the same time gives you full command on CSS, HTML and XML. The prove is me myself. The blog I use is fully ran by Blogger and I feel far comfortable working with Blogger then WordPress.
Further the navigation in wordpress dashboard is so hectic that it takes long to maintain your blog settings if you switch from one page to another.
And most importantly Blogger is free! The free wordpress with no Stylesheet editing fascility doesn’t deserve to be called a free service at all. Every good link in WordPress will ask you to pay first!

For further details you can see my WordPress VS Blogger Comparison Chart 2010

http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2009/12/wordpress-or-blogger-which-one-is-best.html

Best Regards,
Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai
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By: Link Exchange Forum

Link Exchange Forum — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:14:06 +0000

Another great feature of wordpress is it dashboard, at a glance you can manage your blog from this one screen with news of the latest updates, your most recent comments, the most recent inbound links, blog stats, etc. If someone linked to your blog 5 minutes ago, you’ll know about it. .-= Link Exchange Forum´s last blog ..Google loses Canadian Groovle domain name claim =-.

By: Gautam

Gautam — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:07:36 +0000

i don’t say blogger doesn’t have pro bloggers, i know a lot of probloggers using blogger platform. But after some time or the other they change to wordpress becuase of its features.

By: Latief@AnotherBlogger

Latief@AnotherBlogger — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:35:30 +0000

Thanks for the article, I’m considering to have my own domain.
If you please I have many things to say about the article.
1. I thinks WP not better than blogger, its depend how you see the different.
2. WP for pro? When you see that happen? Many blogger are pros. About domain is just a myth that all hosting and domain seller talking about, they don’t want to loose their money lol!
3. About the SEO things. I beat all the Big Guy with few article, they all pro and they pay for the domain, but I still can beat them
4. If you are saying that pro is making money from blog by selling ads space or joining ads programs that you must have own domain, that is a big different.

The point is never feel better than anyone else, that’s is the key. We all learn together
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By: Sire

Sire — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:01:16 +0000

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By: Gautam

Gautam — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:08:37 +0000

Lauren, this would be a great suggestion, but i think google didn’t want this merger to happen or else they would have done it years ago. But if they do, it would be the wisest decision they can take.

Lauren, you can keep that blog and start a new wordpress blog, that would be a great option.